Hyperconnectivity is a megatrend whereby everyone and everything that can benefit from being connected to the network will be connected. What are the enterprise opportunities and challenges of hyperconnectivity?

Securing The Hyperconnected Enterprise

One of the greatest impacts of Hyperconnectivity is in the security area.

Multiple approaches to security enforcement should be used in different parts of the network, operating under enterprise-wide policies. This ‘layered defense’ is further bolstered by adopting an open-security philosophy that embraces a security ecosystem leveraging security leaders such as Symantec, Check Point and Sourcefire.

I recently spoke to an Israeli financial institution that was experiencing 25,000 attacks per day (not a typo!). It has adopted a layered multi-vendor approach to security, including using firewall technologies from different vendors in different parts of the network. In this way, it has eliminated single points of perimeter security failure in the network.

Security 101 says it all starts with the need to continually revisit enterprise security policies and people processes associated with them. Remember, your security decisions today are setting the foundation for security in the hyperconnected world.

When was the last time you took a critical look at your security policy?